Patterns of Process is an ongoing inquiry that employs systems of glassmaking as​sites for investigating themes of exchange and value.

Avolio Drawings

Marks on paper emerge from a series of exchanges when hot glass is presented to a master glassblower. I deliver a glass "bit" to the goblet-maker; he winds a precise amount of material onto the vessel. The remaining molten glass that remains with the assistant is meant to be discarded. Instead, I make use of the still-molten surplus glass to document the transaction. In a flash, the transaction between crafters is captured and revealed.